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Here in France, you’ll help evolve and grow our business.
Are you organized, rigorous, responsive? This role requires excellent leadership, change and people management, strategic planning, communication, teamwork and networking skills to deliver a service to the HBCE markets in line with the risk appetite of the respective MLRO’s and market regulators, consistent with FCI’s overall direction of travel and sensitive to budgetary considerations.? Do you like working in a team and in a dynamic environment? If you answered yes to any of these questions, we want to hear from you

What you will do:

This is a senior leadership role charged with leading the Continental Europe FC Investigations (FCI) function. The role works closely with the FC Investigations colleagues across the bank to manage the effective delivery of FC Investigations for the Continental Europe markets. This role is involved in decision making and providing expertise to Financial Crime Detection teams as well as Transaction Monitoring (TM), FCI Change projects and overseeing the delivery of all investigations and analytical outputs, including controls management and the operational efficiency and effectiveness of the function, senior stakeholder engagement, and providing coordination HBCE Investigations teams. The jobholder has a significant role to play in supporting the growth and optimal performance of the CoE in India as well as our supporting Global Service Center in Krakow and embedding TM Operations in Investigations.

In this role you will:

Direct and oversee the end-to-end delivery of the France investigations, including collaboration with the CoE and Global to achieve timely service delivery in line with regulatory expectations and Global ProceduresBuild capability and maintaining/improving operational effectivenessProvide capacity planning, leading transformation initiatives (e.g. Transaction Monitoring implementations), driving optimization/efficiency initiatives for the function, drive investigations quality/training agenda, support internal/external Assurance/Audit/Reg examinations, and location optimizationSupport the continuing integration of the TM Ops team into Investigations, optimising processes and governance to achieve a seamless E2E view of investigationsOversee compliance with Investigations procedures at country level, including HBCE sites across the legal entity escalation as appropriate from those sitesCommunicate to market CEOs, other senior business and Compliance colleagues the risks identified and arising from investigations, and work with those partners to remediate risks as necessaryRepresent HBCE Investigations in senior Group, Region, governance fora and support the preparation of submissions for relevant fora as necessary Enhance effective risk management by working closely with Risk Stewards and other first line Compliance colleagues, for example Detection and Complex InvestigationsServe as Investigations Control Owner and ensure Issues/Control Monitoring Assessments are appropriately managedManage provide strategic direction to large teams, either directly or through matrix arrangementsLead the people agenda for the HBCE Investigations teams